Improvement in vegetable-cutters



UNITED STATES APATENT OFFICE. i

IMPROVEMENT IN VEGETABLE-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,033, datedSeptember 21, 1875 application filed August 21, 1875.

' of Michigan, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Root andCabbage Cutters; and do hereby decla-re that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a transverse verticalsection 0f my root and cabbage cutter, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to vegetablecutters; and the nature of myinvention consists in a rectilinear reciprocating hopper bottom,operated as will be hereinafter explained, andhaving adjustably securedto it, over a discharge-opening, a double cutting edge knife, which islongitudinally slotted, and provided With vertical knives, incombination with slotted plates applied to the ends of the hopper, aswill be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the frame of my improvedvegetable-cutter, and B is a drawer for receiving the cut vegetables,which drawer is arranged beneath ahopper, C. D designates a hopperbottom, which is, preferably, made of metal, and which receives arectilinear reciprocating motion between guides a a from a crank, b, ona shaft, E, through the medium of a pitman-rod, F. The crank-shaft Ecarries on one end a balancewheel, G, and on the other end a pinionspurwheel, c. The wheel c engages with a larger wheel, H, on a shortshaft, d, xed to the upper portion of frame A, which wheel has ahand-crank secured to it. (Shown in Fig. 1 The hopper C is secured tostandards risin from frame A by means of bolts which pass `throughvertically-oblong slots in said standards, by loosening which bolts thehopper can be raised or depressed. At each end of the hopper, andrigidly secured to it inside, is a comb-plate, g, the comb portion ofwhich extends below the lower edge of the hopper for a purposehereinafter explained. J designates a knife having two cutting edges,which knife is secured to the hopper bottom trailsverse] y withrespectto the length thereof, and arranged over an opening, h, throughthis bottom, ythrough which opening the cuttingsare discharged into thedrawer B. The two-edged knife J has its cutting edges formed byunderybevelin'g, and the thickness of cut of this knife is gaged bymeans of thick or thin blocks f f placed beneath its ends. The upperside of the knife J has a groove in it extending from one end to theother of it, in which groove I secure vertical two-edge knives, lc,arranged at suitable distances apart, and se'- cnred to the knife bymeans of bolts or screws, so that they can be removed or replaced atpleasure. These knives perform the vertical cuts, and at the terminationof each stroke they pass through the comb-plates. The knife J performsthe shaving-cuts in going back and forth, and the cuttings, as beforestated, drop into the drawer B.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure I by Letters Patent, is

The horizontal transverse double-cutting knife J adjustably secured tothe reciprocating hopper bottom D, over a hole, h, and groovedlongitudinally, in combination with vertical knives k and combs g,substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed myname'in the presence of two Witnesses.

JACOB THEODORE LOHR.

Witnesses:

RIGHE. A. SEYMOUR,` F. B. CoLLrNs.

